Technical Leadership Contract Job Trends in the North West

Technical Leadership
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Technical Leadership skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 81 97
Rank change year-on-year +3 +16 +42
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 64 41 42
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.60% 1.76% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.95% 2.07% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 15 30
10th Percentile £452 £500 £479
25th Percentile £528 £519 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £625 £594
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +5.26% +2.37%
75th Percentile £655 £650 £670
90th Percentile £687 £703 £689
England median daily rate £600 £609 £614
% change year-on-year -1.52% -0.73% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £70.16 £65.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +7.94% +266.82% -62.69%
75th Percentile - £67.50 £34.61
90th Percentile - - £44.74
England median hourly rate £75.00 £63.75 £18.93
% change year-on-year +17.65% +236.77% -69.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Technical Leadership falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,169 1,977 2,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.13% 84.78% 88.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,447 1,068 1,627
10th Percentile £213 £294 £270
25th Percentile £358 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £670 £656 £675
England median daily rate £501 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.53% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 121 156
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £16.13
25th Percentile £19.23 £23.48 £18.00
Median hourly rate £29.60 £35.00 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year -15.43% -0.71% +46.88%
75th Percentile £45.88 £51.91 £46.35
90th Percentile £71.06 £69.75 £64.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.14% -19.10% +19.85%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Technical Leadership relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in the North West

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Technical Leadership.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in the North West over the 6 months to 28 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in the North West

Technical Leadership
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Technical Leadership.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leadership within the North West region over the 6 months to 28 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +17 40 £600 -4.00% 17
Cumbria - 10 £590 -
Cheshire -31 5 £450 -29.41%
Merseyside -9 4 £663 +32.43% 1
Lancashire -10 3 £300 -42.86% 10
Technical Leadership
England

Technical Leadership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.56%) Apache
1 1 (1.56%) CICS
1 1 (1.56%) IIS
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.56%) SharePoint
1 1 (1.56%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.56%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.56%) PeopleSoft HCM
1 1 (1.56%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 21 (32.81%) AWS
2 13 (20.31%) Azure
3 10 (15.63%) GCP
4 6 (9.38%) SaaS
4 6 (9.38%) Serverless
5 5 (7.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (7.81%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (7.81%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (7.81%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (7.81%) GitHub
5 5 (7.81%) PaaS
6 4 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (6.25%) Amazon EMR
6 4 (6.25%) Amazon EventBridge
6 4 (6.25%) Apigee
6 4 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (6.25%) AWS Fargate
6 4 (6.25%) AWS Step Functions
6 4 (6.25%) Datadog
6 4 (6.25%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 10 (15.63%) SAN
2 3 (4.69%) LAN
2 3 (4.69%) WAN
3 2 (3.13%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (3.13%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (3.13%) Firewall
3 2 (3.13%) Internet
3 2 (3.13%) MPLS
3 2 (3.13%) Network Security
4 1 (1.56%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.38%) BigQuery
1 6 (9.38%) DynamoDB
1 6 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (7.81%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 4 (6.25%) MySQL
3 4 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 4 (6.25%) RDBMS
3 4 (6.25%) Redis
3 4 (6.25%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.13%) Big Data
4 2 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.56%) Looker
5 1 (1.56%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 6 (9.38%) Git
2 5 (7.81%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.25%) Gradle
3 4 (6.25%) Maven
3 4 (6.25%) SonarLint
3 4 (6.25%) SonarQube
4 2 (3.13%) GitLab
5 1 (1.56%) JIRA
General
1 23 (35.94%) Social Skills
2 15 (23.44%) Public Sector
3 5 (7.81%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (6.25%) Military
5 3 (4.69%) Banking
6 1 (1.56%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.56%) Finance
6 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.56%) Legal
6 1 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 43 (67.19%) Architect
2 18 (28.13%) Technical Architect
3 16 (25.00%) Lead
3 16 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
4 9 (14.06%) SailPoint Architect
5 7 (10.94%) Java Architect
5 7 (10.94%) Java Technical Architect
6 5 (7.81%) Senior
7 4 (6.25%) Lead Software Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) Software Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Developer
8 3 (4.69%) Infrastructure Architect
8 3 (4.69%) Senior Architect
9 2 (3.13%) Cloud Architect
9 2 (3.13%) Data Architect
9 2 (3.13%) Data Centre Architect
9 2 (3.13%) Lead Architect
9 2 (3.13%) SAN Technical Architect
9 2 (3.13%) Security Architect
9 2 (3.13%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.63%) SailPoint
2 7 (10.94%) Kafka
2 7 (10.94%) Spring Boot
3 5 (7.81%) Dropwizard
3 5 (7.81%) J2EE
3 5 (7.81%) Micronaut
3 5 (7.81%) RESTful
4 4 (6.25%) Celery
4 4 (6.25%) JWT
5 3 (4.69%) GraphQL
6 2 (3.13%) Playwright
6 2 (3.13%) pytest
6 2 (3.13%) React
6 2 (3.13%) Spring
7 1 (1.56%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (1.56%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.56%) ISPF
7 1 (1.56%) Middleware
7 1 (1.56%) REST
7 1 (1.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.19%) Data Centre
2 8 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 5 (7.81%) N-Tier
3 5 (7.81%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.69%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (4.69%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.13%) Clustering
6 1 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.56%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.56%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.56%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.56%) PKI
6 1 (1.56%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.56%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.56%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.69%) Linux
1 3 (4.69%) Windows
2 1 (1.56%) Unix
2 1 (1.56%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 15 (23.44%) Agile
2 15 (23.44%) Microservices
2 15 (23.44%) Stakeholder Management
3 12 (18.75%) Containerisation
4 11 (17.19%) CI/CD
4 11 (17.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 10 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (15.63%) Roadmaps
6 9 (14.06%) Architectural Design
6 9 (14.06%) TOGAF
7 8 (12.50%) Application Virtualisation
7 8 (12.50%) Design Patterns
7 8 (12.50%) Software Engineering
8 7 (10.94%) Coaching
8 7 (10.94%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (10.94%) Customer Service
8 7 (10.94%) DevOps
8 7 (10.94%) Due Diligence
8 7 (10.94%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 15 (23.44%) Java
2 11 (17.19%) Python
3 3 (4.69%) Ruby
4 2 (3.13%) SQL
5 1 (1.56%) CLIST
5 1 (1.56%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.56%) JCL
5 1 (1.56%) REXX
5 1 (1.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (34.38%) Security Cleared
2 15 (23.44%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (6.25%) Degree
4 2 (3.13%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.13%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.56%) CCIE
5 1 (1.56%) CCNP
5 1 (1.56%) CHECK Team Leader
5 1 (1.56%) CISSP
5 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.56%) CREST Certified
5 1 (1.56%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.56%) GIAC
5 1 (1.56%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.13%) Data Quality
1 2 (3.13%) GDPR
2 1 (1.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (1.56%) ISO 20022
2 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.56%) NIST
2 1 (1.56%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.56%) SOC 1
System Software
1 7 (10.94%) Docker
2 2 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.56%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 10 (15.63%) Terraform
2 7 (10.94%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Clustering
3 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.56%) Ansible
4 1 (1.56%) CA Endevor
4 1 (1.56%) OMEGAMON
4 1 (1.56%) SCCM
4 1 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (9.38%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.25%) Gigya
2 4 (6.25%) Google
3 3 (4.69%) Capita
3 3 (4.69%) IBM
4 2 (3.13%) Cisco
4 2 (3.13%) Meraki
4 2 (3.13%) Oracle
4 2 (3.13%) Palo Alto
4 2 (3.13%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.56%) Citrix
5 1 (1.56%) F5
5 1 (1.56%) Forcepoint
5 1 (1.56%) HP
5 1 (1.56%) McAfee
5 1 (1.56%) PeopleSoft
5 1 (1.56%) SAP
5 1 (1.56%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.56%) VMware